Caroline Van Dusen was the daughter of Charles Van Deusen and Mary Huntington Cole. She was born at the family's home in New Albany, IN on December 29, 1846. New Albany is directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY, and some records list her birth there. As a young child she and her siblings, Charles K., Mary Huntington, and Henry Devol, spent their winters in New Orleans, LA near her mother's family, and she attended the St. Charles Institute. Her father Charles